wizrd54

I recently acquired 8gb of ram and was wondering if I should turn the page file off, or keep a small one. I cannot seem to find a definite answer elsewhere. Is the page file only used if there is not enough ram? If so, is there no harm in having a small page file for programs that require its use?

Also this refers to me using Windows 7 64bit, not XP 32bit in my sig rig

alex98uk

I would personally keep it on. I have read people saying it's ok to turn it off, but the actual articles in magazines I have read say always keep a chunk.

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Angmaar

I would keep a small chunk (1gb or so) for your page file.

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DuckieHo

Make a page file on a RAMDisk. This will force apps to always use RAM.

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DEC_42

Small page file > No page file. That way you've got full control over the Pagefile, as far as I can remember.

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Mygaffer

Please don't get rid of your pagefile. You will not see a performance increase in anything b/c the pagefile usage that gets reported when you have more than enough ram for what you are doing is commit space from your programs, which means they are allocating themselves memory they think they are going to need.

Go ahead and run a suite of benchmarks, games, etc. with a pagefile and without a pagefile. Once you see there is no difference proceed to leaving well enough alone.

Although the only downside really to having no page file is if you ever get memory constrained you'll have programs refuse to load b/c they can't allocate all the memory they'd like to, even if you've got enough physical ram to load it atm.

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Rick Arter

I here if you put the page file on a separate disk, non-OS i mean and partition a dedicated piece for it works great.

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kpo6969

Leave it as it is.

Asus Mobile

It used to be controlling the size helped (98). But now so much HDD space really does not matter. Also there was the issue of fragmentation so controlling the size mattered. Not an issue anymore.

What Duckie Ho said is a great point. I have never done. I have considered and for someone like me with a 32bit OS I can reclaim my wasted RAM like 800MB's and would be faster than HDD. Same idea for you faster than HDD?

Funny how this discussion is sort of self defeating. I mean that in the sense that if the amount of RAM is marginal then removing PF attempts to force things to stay in RAM. But with all the RAM now? Not like you have to force anything to stay in RAM. It simply does as lots of space.

So as all have said why disable unless you are that low on HDD space. And if you are that low? Trust me you have bigger issues than PF.

b3rg

I'm pretty sure its been established that windows still uses a page file even if you turn it off.